Word: yellowish
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...basement and two lower stories are already built, and it is hoped that the building will be entirely closed in before winter, so that the plastering may be done during the cold weather. The exterior dimensions are 210x120 feet, and the material used in construction is a yellowish-brown brick, mottled with blue, which is made by the Perth Amboy Company in New Jersey. This material has been but little used as yet in this vicinity, and the house of Dr. Bradbury, at the corner of Marlboro and Exeter streets, is almost the only example. The bricks are laid...
...thymele, where the prompter's box is in the opera. Back of this, the "proscenium" or regular stage of the Greeks, was elevated four feet, with marble steps leading to the "orchestra." The back scene had the three doors required in all Greek plays, the buildings being of yellowish marble, shaded and stained with age. Above the roofs of the houses rose the storied Acropolis. All the conventional rules were observed. Characters coming from the city entered on the left hand side. Those coming from other places entered at the right. The use of action as well as declamation, however...
...time to exhibit any effect, yet it tends to irritate the nervous system. If it were not for the action of the liver and kidneys in throwing off the tobacco poison, a user of the weed could not live. The action of these organs is shown by the yellowish tint and puffed condition of the skin of the habitual tobacco user. Although it has been much discussed whether or not tobacco is good for a man when used moderately, yet there can be no doubt of its injuriousness to growing boys, as by retarding the waste of muscular tissue...